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The St. Louis U. High football team has found early season leadership under junior quarterback Kyren Eleby, who has led the team to a 2-2 record so far this season. The team has scored an impressive 104 points in only four games, and Eleby has also recently made headlines on large Instagram accounts such as SportsCenter, MaxPreps, and GSV.

While last week’s picks were solid, they could’ve been better. I hit on some big name sits like Travis Kelce, Mike Evans, and D’Andre Swift. Like I predicted, Kelce and Evans killed your fantasy team if you started them, as Kelce put up 7.0 fantasy points and Evans only put up 3.7. My blunders were on Derek Carr (start) and RB Kyren Williams (sit). I guess this was my fault for jumping the gun on the Saints offense and overestimating them, but they really had dominated until Week 3. For Kyren Williams, I had overestimated the Niners defense and thought the game would be over in the first quarter with how many injuries the Rams had, but I guess the Niners are just terrible. Anyways, I promise to be better this week, and still urge you to trust me here because I spend hours of research on these picks. Good luck this week!

Over the course of their past four games, the Jr. Bills have fallen five spots to No. 7 in the area rankings following losses to CBC and De Smet. However, with wins against Capital City and Clayton, the Jr. Bill squad has rekindled its scoring touch before their biggest matchup of the season.

The St. Louis U. High Cross Country program traveled south to Festus last Saturday, battling through a difficult course under brutal conditions for a successful meet against top competition. 

The St. Louis U. High football team traveled across the Missouri River to face the Lutheran St. Charles Cougars last Friday night.The Jr. Bills started off hot and didn’t relent, dominating the Cougars in a 56-14 win.  

Player availability and trouble keeping the ball made the week a tough one for the St. Louis U. High soccer team. The team’s patience and an additional man against Kirkwood led to a comeback to salvage a tie, and their strong first half against Vianney led to another tie. However, their second game in the CBC Tournament wasn’t as bright as a brilliant goal by CBC and little offensive pressure by the Jr. Bills led to their first loss in over two weeks.

Senior Alex Bendaña has flown under the radar for the past couple of years in the St. Louis U. High cross country program, scoring consistently for the team as one of its top varsity runners. However, there was nothing under the radar in his past race at the Granite City Invite, as the runner soared to new heights breaking the school’s previous three mile record of 14:55 by an astonishing 24 seconds (final time of 14:31). Bendaña’s miraculous run spurred the Jr. Bills to a landslide victory at the meet, and his presence in the squad is key to their hopes of winning a state championship for the first time since 2013

The St. Louis U. High varsity swim team just demolished its second dual meet of the regular season, beating the Parkway South Patriots by 78 points this past Tuesday. The 129-51 victory is the second straight for the Jr. Bills in the season, and the boys are just getting started. 

The St. Louis U. High Cross Country team officially put the rest of the state on notice. The Jr. Bills opened their season with a strong underclassmen performance at the O’Fallon Futures Invitational followed by a varsity win in dominant fashion at the Granite City Invitational. 

Week One was a great success for fantasy football predictions with 5 out of our 6 picks being useful to managers. The only bust was WR Deandre Hopkins, and this choice was based off of Will Levis’ potential development and a solid season last year from Hopkins with Levis. Some big boom predictions featured QB Baker Mayfield and WR Rashid Shaheed who put up 30 fantasy points and 16.3 fantasy points. Some key sits that were predicted included WR Brandon Aiyuk who put up 4.8 points and TE Jake Ferguson who put up 4.5 points. 

With wins against both local and statewide competition, and now formally ranked No. 2 in the St. Louis area, the St. Louis U. High soccer team is now full steam ahead after defeating No. 3 Lindbergh, Springfield Glendale and St. Mary’s (rankings according to GSV). The team found strength through its defense in these games, which hasn’t allowed a goal in the past week.

“Let’s go get a statement win.” That was the mentality of junior quarterback Kyren Eleby as SLUH came home from a hard-fought loss to St. Ignatius in their season opener last week. Facing the Hillsboro Hawks, a team who last year went 12-2 and won their district championship, the Jr. Bills looked to feed off of the energy of the Running of the Bills to catapult them to victory. They ultimately succeeded, snatching a 24-17 win from Hillsboro with a late fourth quarter touchdown under the Friday night lights.

The Saint Louis U. High Varsity swim team dove into its first meet last Wednesday at the Forest Park Community College pool, a two-minute drive from SLUH’s campus. They faced off against Parkway Central, a rival from last year who had lost to the Jr. Bills by a single point. However, this year was different, as the Jr. Bills came away from the meet with a comfortable victory. 

The St. Louis U. High varsity soccer team showed its talent and tenacious mentality against the Chaminade Red Devils on Saturday and the Marquette Mustangs on Tuesday in their first two full matches of the year. 

Week 1 Starts and Sits

The wait is over. The 2024-25 NFL season is upon us and there are some exciting games coming up this weekend. Headlined by the Niners-Jets and the Chiefs-Ravens matchups, some players will have a clear edge over others.